Resolution doesn't change
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RPi3+ with official 2.5A power supply. Retropie 4.4 premade.
USB Devices connected: Official USB hub
Controller used: Servostiks with Zero delay control boards
Dell 2001FP screen and Crafty Mech's Scanline GeneratorAs my SLG works only on two resolutions I set the resolution for all emulators to 600 x 480. But the resolution doesn't change when I start any game (using a LR emulator). Doesn't work either when I set the resolution on game of emulator level. Why could this be the case? Am I overlooking something?
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I would set the resolution in the
/boot/config.txt
file so it takes effect for the whole system, not just the emulators, see: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md -
@simonster I rather have emulationstation in high resolution, without scanlines. Just the games themselves low resolution. And it should be possible. Just don't know why it doesn't work. I am quite sure it worked in the past...
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@barrymossel said in Resolution doesn't change:
I set the resolution for all emulators to 600 x 480.
How did you do that exactly?
Which emulators do you use? Some of RetroPie's emulators are not RetroArch cores and won't be affected by RA's settings.
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I set the resolutions for all LR emulators through the configuration editor and I tried with several LR emulators. Also tried setting the resolution through configuration editor on a specific LR emulator. And I tried on game level (by hitting a button when loading the game).
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Does it work without the SLG connected?
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@Clyde Unfortunately not.
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The resolution switch uses the
tvservice
utility distributed with Raspbian. Try using it from the command line and see if switching it manually works.EDIT:using the utility you can query the supported video modes and maybe find find the proper mode supported by the monitor.
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@mitu said in Resolution doesn't change:
The resolution switch uses the
tvservice
utility distributed with Raspbian. Try using it from the command line and see if switching it manually works.See here how to do that.
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@mitu said in Resolution doesn't change:
The resolution switch uses the
tvservice
utility distributed with Raspbian. Try using it from the command line and see if switching it manually works.EDIT:using the utility you can query the supported video modes and maybe find find the proper mode supported by the monitor.
That does work.
DMT 4 btw.
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When I manually choose DMT 4 at game launch it seems to work as well...
So I can set video mode per emulator... Guess it is sort of solved. Still weird that setting resolution through the configuration editor doesn't work.
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@barrymossel said in Resolution doesn't change:
. Still weird that setting resolution through the configuration editor doesn't work.
The configuration editor is for RetroArch configurations and I think RA doesn't change the resolution of screen itself. What you actually want is the runcommand resolution switch - which works with
tvservice
. Another option is to use the onstart/onend scripts to switch resolution, instead of manually configuring per-emulator settings in the Runcommand.
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